Shipping-tag.



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SHIPPING TAG.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 7, 190?.

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WILLIS N. BRAGG, OF DAVENPORT, IOWA.

SHIPPING-TAG.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 11, 1907.

Application filed February 7,1907. Serial No. 356,185.

To all whom, t may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIS N. BRAGG, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of the city of Davenport, in the county of Scott and State of Iowa, have invented a new and useful Shipping-Tag, 0f which the following is the specification.

My invention relates to shipping tags to be tacked or nailed upon boxes, barrels or crates or other objects or to be secured thereto by tying with string.

Heretofore great difficulty has been eX- perienced by shippers of goods in barrels, crates and other articles, in having the barrels or crates returned when empty, or in determining by whom such barrels or crates were returned.

The object of my invention is to provide a combination shipping and return tag to be secured to the barrel or crate when shipped by the owner which will make it easier for the purchaser of the contents of the barrel to return the barrel to the owner and which will provide a ready means of identification so that the owner can readily determine by whom such barrels were sent. I attain these objects by the tags illustrated in the accompanyi ng drawings `in which- Figure l is a View of the one side of the tag and Fig. 2 is a view of the opposite side of the tag.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the views.

F or convenience of reference we shall call one printed leaf of the tag, the return tag, and the other printed leaf, the shipping tag. The

` return tag A has written or printed thereon,

the words From and followed by the name and address of the person returning the tag which is followed by the word To and the name and address of the party to whom the barrel or crate is to be returned. The shipping portion of the tag B has printed thereon the word To followed by an opening F cut through the leaf of the tag in such a position that it will expose the name of the consignee when folded upon the line C.

In the drawings the printed face of the shipping tag is marked A and the reverse face of the shipping tag A. The printed face of the return tag is marked B and the opposite face B, The shipping tag is perforated in two lines near each end to permit the main portion of the tag to be torn off Without detaching the return tag. The ends of the tag may be perforated to permit the introduction of a string when the tag is folded on the line C.

To use this tag it is only necessary to write the name and address of the person who is to receive and return the barrel or crate upon the return tag in the space shown by the dotted line F of Fig. l, fold the tag upon the line C so that the open space F is over the written name and address, and secure the tag by tacks through the corners or by string to the article to be shipped and returned. All that is necessary for the receiver to do to address the barrel for return is to tear off the portion of the return tag through the perforated lines; and in case the empty barrel is returned without tearing olf this portion of the tag, the owner can readily see by whom the barrel or crate is returned.

It is obvious that tags may be' made to fold either longitudinally or transversely and that the perforated lines may extend longitudinally or transversely without changing the form of the invention.

Having described my invention what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s;-

1. The combination of a shipping tag and a return tag formed integral therewith, folded one upon the other, the shipping tag carrying an opening through which a portion of the contents of the return tag may be read.

2. The combination of a shipping tag having a return tag formed integral therewith, and folded one upon the other, the shipping tag thereof carrying an opening through which a portion of the contents of the return tag may be read, and perforated lines upon the shipping tag near each end.

3. The combination of a shipping tag having a return tag formed integral therewith, and folded `one upon the other, the `shipping tag thereof carrying an opening through which a portion of the contentsof the return tag may be read, and a perforated line upon the shipping tag near the fold.

W. N. BRAGG.

Witnesses:

A. G. BUsH, WINNIFRED JAMES. 

